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Author:
flippy
Date:
Nov 14, 2010
Subject:
Almost time to winterize
Message:
Went out today and bought my winterizing products for my engine, for those who dont know how to do it, its really simple, make sure you have fuel stabilizer, lower end oil and fogging oil, thats pretty much it, make sure you have the stabilizer mixed with the fuel, thoroughly, then you run your engine till its warmed up then fog the engine, I fog it till it just about stalls, or do bursts of fogging oil until your engine is smoking pretty heavily, next I drain the lower unit, make sure your oil in lower end looks like honey when you drain it, if it looks like milk you are getting water in lower unit and you must have it looked at, Then I take my batteries out of the boat and put them in the basement on a trickle charger, I do not leave them in the boat, while Im at it I take the tires off and check the bearings, just to make sure the races and bearing carriages are fine, then I replace or repack the bearings and put it all back together, Done, This is an outboard, inboards are about the same but you must run anti freeze through the block, thats it, the boat goes nighty, night
Author:
SAP284
Date:
Oct 23, 2011
Message:
Hey Jim, Do you have any recommendations for the hoses that run the bilge, and aerator? This is the first time I am going to winterize a boat and I am just hoping that those hoses wont have any leftover water in them and crack from freezing. Thanks,
Author:
blaine99
Date:
Oct 23, 2011
Message:
this may be a very dumb question but is this something you should definitely do?
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